Red Sox Nation my Ass!
If you happen to read this:
NY Times Article
You may be surprised to read this:
"Boston's 2004 win ended an 86-year championship drought and exorcised what generations of fans had called a "curse."But it also spawned "Red Sox Nation," an ardent base of traveling supporters who sometimes outnumber home team's fans at Boston road games.Not even the revered New York Yankees played in front of bigger regular-season crowds on the road this year."
While technically true the red sox "out drawing" the Yankees away from home is due entirely to the fact that the Red Sox play the Yankees away at Yankee stadium (big park) and the Yankees play the Red Sox away at Fenway (Small Park).
According to ESPN the Yankees outdraw the Redsox with respect to total percentage of available seats filled. It was not indicated on the site whether this a straight percentage average by game or the faction of total seats sold/ total seats available. Anyway the Yankees lead the world at this number 83%. The RedSox are second at 81%.
see:
ESPN Link
No matter how you slice it. Red Sox fans can't do math.
posted by Adi @ 2:07 PM
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1 Comments:
Well, I'm not sure people would consider the NY Times to be a bona fide Red Sox fan.
I agree that you have to take into account for the difference in stadium sizes and so look at raw numbers isn't the right thing to do. However, looking at proportion of capacity is also flawed for the same reason. Do the Yankees have an edge in that measure only because Fenway has been sold out for the past three years or so?
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